San Diego homicide detectives are now investigating the suspicious death of CorePower Yoga founder Trevor Tice after police officers found his body in his upscale Sunset Cliffs home on Monday, responding to a request for a welfare check on the resident. News reports state he bought the home last January for $3 million.

In a lawsuit filed by two Jani-King franchisees, alleging they were wrongly classified as independent contractors instead of employees, an appeals court affirmed in September a ruling by the district court that the case could go forward as a class action against the world's largest commercial cleaning franchisor.

After repeatedly denying it had received any complaints about celebrity pitchman Jared Fogle requesting sex with children while promoting its brand, Subway and its Franchisee Advertising Fund are now facing a lawsuit filed on behalf of Jared's former wife and children.

After a jury in Indiana district court awarded a truck dealership $6.5 million last year, finding Volvo Trucks North America breached its franchise agreement through price discrimination, the franchisee is now asking the federal appeals court to uphold the award while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago is hearing the appeal of the lawsuit.

While McDonald's promotes its zero tolerance for workplace sexual harassment in its 14,000 restaurants across the country, 15 female workers claim the hamburger chain is not enforcing its policy. To prove it they have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, not only against the franchisor but also against franchisees.

COSTA MESA, California – An investor lawsuit in Delaware was unsealed last month alleging that directors and officers of fast food chain El Pollo Loco concocted a "pump and dump" stock scheme in 2015, allowing them to pump up the value of stock through false public statements and financials, and then dumping over six million shares before the true dismal numbers were released.

Striker: “McDonald's can easily afford to give us a raise." photo/Fightfor$15

An international trade union coalition representing 32 million workers has again expressed its strong support for European governments to beef up their investigation into McDonald's corporate structure that allowed it to register a cumulative revenue of €3.7 billion between 2009 and 2013, on which it reported only €16 million in taxes.

After an Australian teenager's Facebook posting went viral in 2013, showing in a photo how his Subway signature "footlong" sandwich fell short of its name by an inch, inspiring plaintiff lawyers to jump in with lawsuits, and resulting in a settlement, the Subway sub fiasco is not over yet.